Perhaps one is confused, but regarding the subject of these "grants", could that not create huge huge huge potential problems for the site and its opperators if the recepient turned Turkey and used it to fund a nefarious opperation, and was caught doing so? Maybe even...conspiracy trial type problems? Again, one probably misunderstood, and/or fails to grasp how rigorously these recipients would be scrutinized prior to money exchanging hands, but it seemed worthy of consideration
Maybe? O_o

Regards,
-poorfeeeeeeeeeesh

Cool, cool was just a random thought 

It should be put forth that this is indeed a good idea Vesp, seems like most of the replies have been "well yeah but don't F that S in the A, mang" (mine included), and obviously if one has the capacity to put together a forum such as this, one would know/understand how to do so safely/properly (one hopes) 

In any case, apologies if one only added to the storm clouds above Vesp's parade

Do it to it!

-po'fish

The challenges here might be a little too complicated, but ever been on Innocentive? A lot of the challenges there are team challenges, we could be a team! http://www2.innocentive.com/

I have read this thread many times Vesp, and I think your idea is simply awesome...The only thing is, most researchers here aren't really into legality as far I know, so getting involved with money into probably isn't a legally good idea... Just my 2 cents !

That idea would probably be a lot better on a site like sciencemadness...

Don't get me wrong Vesp, I don't actually mind if ''thoses guys'' gets the grant...The nature of my out-of-university research are REALLY QUESTIONABLE  I'm just saying you sounds like a great guy, and that you're not into illegal stuff, so I hope you can't get into trouble financing some Researchers

Agreed  

Anyway, I don't consider anything people are doing here bad...Otherwise I wouldn't be here . I REALLY like this place since it seems that while the topics are of questional (and interesting!!!) nature, the people here are smarter than the persons I'm studying with at university

By the way, I really like your little-chemists plants I wish I was that dedicated at botany..

Well I'm a little late to this thread and I would tell you Vesp to definitely do it....  I think that's it's a wonderful idea and everyone that has posted on this thread has contributed excellent ideas as well as the precautions you should take.  So I wish you all the best of luck in your endeavors.
Even though I am in no way on the level that everyone here is in the sciences I have gained valuable information from both here as well as your other forum! Grin

Took the words out of my mouth!!

   As is THE caveat,,,,"its NOT FOR HERE"  but yes its a neat idea,,,,

     I think 'capitalising' on maybe having some "homework help online"...make it fun...like the "Facebook of/for chemistry people"]
  THE place to find an answer...IMO   Sciencmadness has become too "serious"  

            I'm not sure "publishing" anything is that important,,,,

.maybe their could be "prizes" for the best "forum peer reviewed" experiment thread, OR chemistry Idea's i.e another nifty oxidant/process


  go for ya life waspman...

ps. klosetchem13 sounded a touch disinhibited,,however, di anyone get this punnishing bit..

.Amine lets face it

...amine= I mean...kinda neat  



I dunno why this whole post is in "quotation blue" It shouldnt be?
(I fixed it, forgot to end the quote mark - vesp )

Hmmm, how long has it been?

How long did you have here before it took off? I feel there is an initiation point in a forum kind of like a chemical reaction where things appear to proceed very slow until combustion. Combustion can be trigged by a catalyst of somesorts.... What was the catalyst here??? Find something simular to set ablaze The Laboratory forum....

I think your best bet of finding that head over heels enthusiast is more then likely over at the shroomery if I would have to guess. A pot head will also help expand the site since they are dedicated to growing there plants and can share a topic many want to join in the conversation. Its all about enthusiasumm.

Hit me up for suggestions Vesp...

Maybe you need a different venue - sort of a combo blog & discussion.  I have seen some good science blogs and learned a lot from them - they usually allow comments, but I don't know if that would satisfy your desire for interaction and discussion.  

I have been thinking of getting a blog simply because when I know I may be writing something up for someone else later, I take better notes and do less deviation from my plans.

Also if other people know what you're working on they may have suggestions etc, I often don't want to write until I am finished because it isn't useful to people til you have results and there are a gazillion people posting theoretical plans that they are hoping someone will either explain or shoot down so they don't have to think about them.

Thinking of "the laboratory"  in marketing terms, as a concept it seems to lack focus, but in practice has a focus on plant chemistry & micropropagation.  Thinking of the chemistry sites I have joined since I got into chemistry, there are only 3 I visit daily - SciMadness, the Collective, & Vespiary.

I love Vespiary for it's laid back flavor and very deep information.  I download the references automatically because the requests are deep and usually indicate potentially productive experimental directions.   My level of chemistry skills isn't really up to most of what goes on here so my posts are infrequent but I follow it daily.  Actually they aren't up to the other forums either, but there were some threads already started at collective that fit what I'm working on so I stuck my neck out to get 25 decent posts going.  (Didya see Chi's cat-eating New thread button icon?) Ya'll do a good job of moderation so there isn't a lot of flaming and ego BS like some sites overall it's a great place to hang out.

 "The laboratory" overlaps with a lot of other sites so while I enjoy it as a site, especially because of it's emphasis on plant stuff it does overlap with some of the mushroom/plant sites.  I think it might be more successful if you narrow it's focus to what you love - Hobby plant propagation and breeding or something in that neighborhood.  The need to keep the topics clean makes it less useful to many of the people who post on vespiary.  For example, I hesitated to post my ephedra extraction explorations because even though it is something I am pursuing for the challenge of it, it could be considered technically illegal.  Also right now there isn't much content, a few really great threads would probably help it - chances are you aren't going to find yourself in the search engines for a while.  It takes a good while for people to find you.  I found this site because it was in your tag line at other sites.  So advertise!!

Before I retired, I worked closely with a govt. grant writer and the reviewers are pretty lax, but you need a certain level of (can't think of the term) to get a grant.  Their worst nightmare would be to give a grant to someone doing something even remotely shady - although govt's and corps get away with shady easier than citizens - in other words they'll scutinize the hell out of you if you're not an agency of some sort.

I joined a bunch of different sites and they all have a different flavor:
   Drugs-forum is Blah and too big - more of a drug news site than a place to discuss chemistry although there are some good informational posts and threads there from before they banned it.  
   Science Madness is a great site that is more general in its tone, it seems very good for metal/catalyst and macgiver chemistry.
   The Collective is a cool place with good info on drug chemistry and weird conversations but I hate having to write in SWIM syntax cause if what I were doing was illegal referring to self as SWIM ain't gonna do much good.
 
  Can't even remember all the plant/ enthogen forums I joined, they seem rather narrowly focused than I usually want to be.  I'm sure there are a gazillion places already dedicated to Cannabis production so you would want to avoid that since I think you are interested in blazing new trails.

(just realized I recommended you narrow your focus when that isn't something I like - basically The laboratory feels like a more restrictive version of Vespiary)
Salat

Actually phytochemistry and phytochemical are terms used for this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytochemistry
Economic Botany is related.

Salat